# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-cretu
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:54:28.472Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-cretu"
name: "Michael Cretu"
slug: "michael-cretu"
description: "Michael Cretu is a Romanian-German musician, singer, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He gained worldwide fame as the founder and musician behind the musical project Enigma, which he formed in 1990."
tagline: "Romanian–German musician, singer, songwriter, and producer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/AunTUKSNITj5q9iuJB0kfzziSpd.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1957-05-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.78
  momentum:             3.456125108601216
  historical:           24.182296
  currentAttention:     19.20069504778453
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1107371/"
    handle:    "nm1107371"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ميتشايل كريتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مایکل کرتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mişel Kretu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Михай Крецу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Cretu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Cretu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%AD%CE%BB_%CE%9A%CF%81%CE%AD%CF%84%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%85"
    title: "Μισέλ Κρέτσου"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Cretu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Cretu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cretu"
    title: "Michael Cretu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مایکل کرتو"
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    title: "Michael Cretu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cretu"
    title: "Michael Cretu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "מיכאל קרצו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cretu"
    title: "Michael Cretu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cretu"
    title: "Michael Cretu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "マイケル・クレトゥ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Cretu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cretu"
    title: "Michael Cretu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cretu"
    title: "Michael Cretu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cretu"
    title: "Michael Cretu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%B9%D9%88"
    title: "مائیکل کریٹو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cretu"
    title: "Michael Cretu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihai_Cre%C8%9Bu"
    title: "Mihai Crețu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Cretu"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://tr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Cretu"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/85db5f43-15b6-449e-a114-22f9c1c681f8"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77006"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump